March 7, 2014
The last blog ended with the early morning shot of Queenstown outside our hotel…and here is the photo again. Later in the day, we took the Skippers Canyon tour and reminisced about some or our most ugly rugged back roads in Idaho. The Skippers Canyon road beat anything we had been on before, but the view and destination were well worth the rough roads and steep dropoffs down to the river! The area was the site of some early gold mining in the area---and the first commercial bungee jump site. The jump was about a 103 meter drop (210 feet) to the river!! The jump site had been closed for years and has been replaced by an even greater jump in another location.
March 8, 2014 -- This was a travel day aimed at getting us back to Christchurch for tomorrow’s flight out of the country. About a 485 km trip—but we found a bunch of places to stop and enjoy the sights! One of the sights was Mt. Cook which we saw several times on our trips as we passed it going South and then North….couldn’t hardly miss the big peak, even though the cloud cover today made a full view impossible….
March 9,2014
Time to leave New Zealand! At checkout, the desk clerk brought out a nice vest and handed it to me—someone had left it behind. Marty, the Tour Guide, heard that it was mine. Since I was wearing mine at the time, we figured out that it actually belonged to Jim—the other guy on the tour with impeccable taste in travel clothes. Marty modeled the vest to show how nice and functional it was…..
March 10, 2014
You talk about a change of pace and scenery—we traveled from the South end of New Zealand, South of their 45th parallel in cold country….and we ended up in Fiji where the weather was warm and HUMID!!! Long pants came off in a hurry! We stayed at the Outrigger on the Lagoon right on the beach…very nice. First photo is us at the check-in station. Second photo is a view of the resort from out in the water a few steps..
March 11, 2014
still working on it.
March 12, 2014
Not even started yet….
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